226.] [Footnote 165: _Ibid._, Vol.

IX, p.

2.] [Footnote 166: In this connection Scott's review of Todd's edition of Spenser is interesting.

He takes exception to the lack of an appearance of continuity in the biography, caused by the long quotations included in the body of the narrative; and censures the editor for not having used the history of Italian poetry in elucidating Spenser's work.

(_Edinburgh Review_, October, 1805.)] [Footnote 167: Review of Todd's _Spenser_.] [Footnote 168: _Dryden_, Vol.